The Washington Highway Users Federation (WHUF) held their interim briefing on December 6 to update stakeholders on the 2015 Connecting Washington transportation package and what to expect on the transportation front in 2017.

As we first reported in June, the federal passage of Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or the “FAST Act” will bring nearly $3.6 billion in federal transportation dollars to Washington State by 2020.

Congress enacted the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or the “FAST Act,” in December. Following that, the Governor’s office convened a group of state and local representatives to make recommendations on how the funds should be distributed.

The Complete Streets Award is flexible money given to any city or county in Washington state that has an adopted complete streets ordinance and shows an ethic of planning and building streets that use context sensitive solutions to accommodate all users, including pedestrians, transit users, cyclists, and motorists.

Although the Legislature&rsquo;s failure to adopt a supplemental operating budget forced them to go into a special session, they did pass a supplemental transportation budget during the regular session.

One of the highlights of the 2015 legislative session was the passage of a new transportation package that includes many provisions helpful to cities, including new direct distributions of gas tax revenues and “multi-modal funds”.